
Lori Rosove is a Canadian social worker and educator whose career as an adoption practitioner spanned more than 25 years. She has guided hundreds of parents in enhancing their relationships with their children. In 2001, Lori wrote Rosie’s Family: An Adoption Story, a children’s picture book that helps parents talk with their children about adoption. Rosie’s Family covers important adoption issues such as family differences in race and culture, challenges between birth and adoptive siblings, and adoptee confusion about birth parents. Lori is thrilled to know that thousands of families have enjoyed and benefited from the sage advice offered in Rosie’s Family. Now, at the end of her career in adoption, Lori has written 23: Voices of Adopted Youth, with the goal of harvesting wisdom from adoptees, aged 15 to 26. In their own voices, the youth express their deep feelings about adoption including anger, abandonment, doubt, confusion, curiosity, surprise, and love, which provide an invaluable perspective of the adoptee experience for parents, clinicians, and educators. These stories will also be helpful for other youth adoptees to examine their feelings about adoption and know that they're not alone.